dude,
you need to make this clear to owes firstly! Contest dont bother me one bit and have no interest them in them, its just quite shocking to see this happen again...
If there is no budgets, make a plan! There must have been how many 50 - 100 owes on the beach and no one owns a camera or knows how to take any pics what soever? You need to realise that this isnt being destructive to the sponsors, its the way how the event was run that isnt the best for the sponsors.
remember with events your sponsors should be placed first and it should be in there best interests!!! 3 days after the event finished there still is not one pic on the biggest south african bodyboarding online community and not even a write up. Sorry no excuses whoever you are this is just pathetic and there are loads of owes who agree who are way more envolved then myself.
think everyone is just tired of excuses at the end of the day. If you want to run a contest and make it sick then do it right. The other problem is why the heck are you only trying to get a contest which should be a main one as big as this in only 2 months?!! this should be signed off with everything about 4 - 6 months before the contest kicks off. This is why you get such last minute rush.
The other problem is that people are too selfish and worrying about themselves. This can be simply turned around, ie scrap one bodyboard / wettie or whatever it might be and turn that into something for media coverage?! There you go media coverage sorted and if its not cash make a prize for the best shots etc of the event wins a board, its simple logic just put your heads together.
SOOO, how much was spent on the whole event? Maybe give us a breakdown then if you know it? Sounds like 7 divisions which means atleast everyone that comes first usually gets atleast a board and extras. Dude we all know that prize money in events like this cause be easy R20 000 and upwards.
You owes just need to think and plan a little more which is quite simple to do, well should be. If Ian Thurtell can pull a contest out of his magic hat in a few months and blow it up to be something super sick then why cant Wedge do this since its been running for so long??? From what ive know wedge to be as long as i can remember it just gets worse off every year.
Maybe you should conider, if you cant change the people change the people.
If everyone wants to ride kiddy contests then they should all just shutup and stop complaining, if you want good contests with sick prizes and bodyboarding to grow then pull your finger out your a$$ and start doing something about it.
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How do we get money? We have bigger contests. How do we get bigger contests? We have better coverage. Bit of a catch 22.
well media coverage doesnt have to cost anything, and you will never get big contests till you get media done right. Its the same applied with everything from companies of whatever sort to bands / surfing etc. They know they need to spend money to make money and for this they want atleast some photos to say thanks or show what the event it about.
so take it your finishing line with the winners is all the finishing off / write up this contest is going to get? We shouldnt have to have people like you posting this stuff because the media coverage should be sorted out. This is what im saying is quite a joke, ive just seen spex posting images on facebook but not one person has one picture or final summary / breakdown for the community of sixty40?
